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Is it the T4 hormone itself? Is it the fillers in the Levo and the Synthroid? But wait, lyothyronine or T3 wasn't called to the carpet. It was just T4. So let's go deeper. Welcome to the Thyroid Fixer podcast, where we dive deep into the world of thyroid and hormones, especially for you ladies navigating perimenopause and menopause, and really for anyone struggling with hypothyroidism. I'm your host, Dr. Amy, thyroid and hormone specialist and a CEO of a global telemedicine practice where we prescribe the right thyroid treatment and bioidentical hormones to all 50 states and most of Canada, helping you become that badass human that you're meant to be. So if you're battling weight gain and hair loss, you can't lose weight no matter what you do. Your energy levels are plummeting and your libido left town. Then you're in the right place and you have found your tribe. Remember, I want you to embrace every inch of that badass woman that you truly are. So if you're ready to dive in and fix things, let's get started. Are you absolutely frustrated with working with doctors that keep telling you that you're normal and everything is fine, or are you frustrated with going the functional medicine or integrated medicine route and you're still not getting optimized? Maybe because they're focusing on other things other than the thyroid and hormones or they're not a thyroid and hormone expert. Listen, just because you go to a functional medicine practitioner, it does not mean they know what they're doing with your thyroid and with your hormones. They might tell you they do, but the reality is, if you claim to be good at everything, you're really good at nothing. That is why we focus on thyroid and hormones now. Yes. What else is involved in thyroid and hormones? You got insulin, you got your adrenals, you got cortisol. Of course the gut is important. Of course it is. Nutrient deficiencies, all the things. But we look at all of that and the bottom line is you could do all the gut healing protocols, detoxes, adrenal fairy dust, sprinkling that you want to do. And if your thyroid is in the toilet, if you're not being treated properly, if your free T3 is low, if your reverse T3 is high, if your hormones are in the tank, then it doesn't matter. You're going to be wasting your time, you're going to be wasting money, you're going to be throwing A bunch of supplements at it, just getting more and more frustrated and getting supplement fatig week. You need to work with people that will hold your hand, actually care about you, ask you how you're feeling, not have a cap on any kind of dosing. Oh, that drives me crazy too. All those docs out there that say, well, you can't go above XYZ dose of T3. That is complete BS. Do not listen to them. Or doctors that tell you that hormones cause cancer. No, no, do not listen. We can get you to optimization land where you feel amazing, where you're not gaining weight, looking sideways at a brownie, where you have consistent energy through the day, your hair is not falling out, and yes, you actually poop and detox every single day. That is a win. So you're going to want to book a call with my team and this is totally free. And this is where we go over. Hey, what have you tried? What has worked, what hasn't worked? Where are you at on the frustration spectrum? And, and here's how we can help. And we are going to tailor a program for you and your needs to get you to Optimization land. Because I always talk about it. It's a beautiful place to live and I invite you all to join me there. Because in Optimization land, you are confident and strong. You want to go out, your brain works, you have energy, you have motivation and you feel so good every time you get dressed. Oh, and you have a libido. It's a beautiful place to live. So I'm going to invite you to click the link below. We always put it in the show notes how to work with us. So you're going to book a free call, no obligation. We're just going to go over everything with you and at least you'll have some guidelines and know what your next steps should be. If you really want to get optimized. We got you. We've been doing this long enough. You're not a tough case. I always say that. But it is time to put you first. Because like I say, we only have so much time on this planet. Let's live it in optimization land because you deserve to be the badass human that you're meant to be. So I look forward to seeing you in one of our programs so we can help you level up and bring you into optimization land. Do you ever feel like your energy is just off? Like you're not fully alive during the day and then you're restless at night? Chances are your circadian rhythm, your body's natural clock has been disrupted by a lack of sunlight. So what's the solution? 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Dr. Amy they are giving me the code to give to you for 10 off. You will not regret it. This is the best, best red light, hands down. I have many of them in my house. This is the only one that I use. It is so easy, portable, and it works. The most important thing is it works. So mitoluxe.com forward/doctor Amy don't forget to use the code. Doctor Amy does T4 cause cancer? Now we did a whole separate podcast on this, but new evidence has come out and I want to go deeper because this is a question that I keep seeing over and over again in the just fix your thyroid Facebook group and from our individual patients. So I want to take a moment and really break this down. Now, many of you know and love Dr. Brian Artis. He's been a guest on the show and he recently released an episode on his podcast, the Dr. Artist show, explaining the different studies that are out there in regards to T4 causing cancer, increasing our risk of cancer. Now, I want to touch on that briefly because he did a beautiful job at going over the studies, but didn't really break it down enough or the studies themselves didn't break down enough the mechanism of action as to why. So it's just more of a broad statement that, hey, T4 levosynthroid, EU thyrox causes cancer without knowing the mechanism in the body is why that is happening. So that's what we're going to do today. I'm going to give you clear answers on this. Now, first and foremost, when we look at T4 as a medication, T4 is the inactive thyroid hormone. It has to convert, it has to become T3, the active thyroid hormone. And it goes through this conversion process in the body. This conversion happens in the thyroid gland itself, in your gut, in your liver, and in peripheral tissues. This conversion process is essential because if there's a break in that T4 to T3 conversion process, you're not going to get enough of the active thyroid hormone, T3, to your cells. So every single cell in your body has a receptor site on it for T3. There's actually no receptor site for T4. And this is going to be an important point because when we're talking about cancer and T4 causing cancer, how can it actually trigger a cell to mutate if there's no receptor site on the cell for the T4 inactive thyroid hormone? Okay, so just keep that in mind. So T4 has to convert to T3. I call that conversion job. Well, I, I, I equate it to running 10 tough mudders. It's really, really hard for your body to do. And one of the main reasons why you can't convert T4 to T3 outside of a genetic SNP. Now, there are genetic SNPs, there's D101, D102, that can impair conversion or completely stop conversion. So you could be one of those people that no matter what you do, how many nutrients you take, conversion factors that you take, you are just not going to convert T4 to T3 and you need T3 only. But most of us aren't like that. I would say the majority of my patients do well on a little bit of T4 and more T3. Or we'll combine natural desiccated thyroid with T3, but we're always looking at that T4 to T3 ratio, and we're looking at the individual and we're looking at the reverse T3 so that we can properly treat them. The problem is, if you're not one of our patients, you're probably on T4 only, or even natural desiccated thyroid only. Now, I know you might be shocked at that. Wait, natural desiccated thyroid? Ndt. That's what the FDA is trying to ban right now. And you're fighting for it? Yes, I am. I'm fighting for it to stay because it Helps so many people, usually when it is combined with a little bit of T3. The reason I say that is because NDT is 80% T4 and only 20% T3. 80% T4. Okay, let's break this down even further for a better understanding before we get into the studies. When T4 does not properly convert to T3, what it does is it converts to this inactive thyroid hormone or an antithyroid hormone called reverse T3. Now you may have heard this before, bear with me. I want to cover it for the people who haven't. Reverse T3 is like a bouncer at the club. When reverse T3 is elevated, it literally blocks T3 from getting to that beautiful receptor site on your cell. Now, increased reverse T3 has also been associated with something called human dormancy syndrome or basically hibernation of the human body. So think about bears going to hibernation in the winter. Yeah, that's your body when you are on too much T4 in the form of Synthroid levotiracin or in the form of natural desiccated thyroid armor thyroid MP thyroid ren thyroid, because that's 80% T4. So when your reverse T3 climbs, it puts your body into lockdown hibernation, human dormancy mode. Now, when the body is dormant, when the body is in hibernation, let's think about this. What doesn't work when your body slows down all functions to literally survive. And wait, before we break that down, let's go one step further. Reverse T3 is elevated when you're lying in the ICU, in the ER. Thank God. Right? That is a built in survival mechanism in our body. Because our body knows that when we're lying there fighting for our life from a trauma, an accident, a crash, an injury, we want to stop energy from going to places it doesn't need to go at that moment in time. So when you're lying there fighting for your life, you don't need to lose weight, you don't need to grow your hair, you don't need to make major decisions, you don't even need to poop every day. You need to lie there and survive. So reverse T3 is a beautiful built in mechanism of her body. Our creator didn't do a bad thing here. The issue is when reverse T3 climbs because we're on too much T4 or because we don't have the essential nutrients to help our own body convert what our thyroid gland is making in the form of T4 over to the actiform T3. All right, so we laid that down with reverse T3. Now you understand. Now one step further as well would be that you can't just look at the standard lab value ranges of reverse T3. You always have to look at optimal. No matter what lab you're looking at, you have to look at optimal, not that standard lab value range. That's taken from groups of sick people. So with reverse C3, we want it below a 12. That's pretty universal across all countries. Less than 12. If you don't have a 9 to 24 or a 0 to 24 reference range for your reverse D3, then what I want you to do is cut it in half. Half. So if you're in a different country, we've had some patients from Mexico, their reverse T3 reference range is like maybe a 09 to a 024 to just moving of the decimal point. So we want it less than 0.12. Just cut that range in half. You want to be in the bottom half of the range, bottom half of the range. If you're above that, then your reverse T3 is too high and your body is in lockdown survival mode. All right, now let's actually get to those studies that are scaring people. You know, we're getting calls left and right. Should I go off my T4? Should I go off my T4? Well, if you're one of our patients, then we have you on the right amount of T4 for you. Probably just a little bit, just to support your body, just enough there to give you that savings account. I always talk about T4 and T3 as checking and savings. T3 is used by the body. It's the active thyroid hormone. It's like you're checking. Always there, always there. Use it, use it. T4 is the savings account because it has to convert and become T3. You have to move T4 from savings to checking in order to spend it. It has to become T3 in order to do anything in your body. So if you have this massive savings account and you're not moving anything to checking, you have no life. You can't, you can't pay bills, you can't spend anything. If you're living off your checking account, that's not great either. If you have to, like I do, T3 only, you have to live off your checking day to day, that's fine. But if we can give you a little bit in savings, then we're going to do that. So if you're our patient, you're having a little bit of T4 in the mix, but we're making sure that your reverse T3 stays below that 12 and that you're converting properly. And then we're checking all of your systems because your systems tell us, and your symptoms also tell us, whether you're being properly treated. So if you are still sluggish, not losing weight, gaining weight, fatigue, think low and slow, hypo low and slow, depressed, low mood, low brain function, low circulation, you're cold all the time, your hands and feet go numb, your joints hurt, you're inflamed, you're not pooping every day. Everything is just low and slow and sluggish. If you're in that mode, then that's a huge problem because then that tells us you are not being properly treated and your reverse T3 is most likely high. Okay, now we're getting into the studies. Here's the thing. I don't want you to be overly concerned if you are on the correct amount of T4. The one thing that Dr. Ardus didn't go over is that, is it the T4 hormone itself? Is it the fillers in the Levo and the Synthroid? But wait, lyothyrenine or T3 wasn't called to the carpet. It was just T4. So let's go deeper. It's not the medication itself. There's no direct evidence that T4 or L thyroxine, which covers all the meds alone, causes cancer. But higher T4 levels are associated with increased cancer risk and may promote cancer. Okay, I'm going to say it again. Higher T4 levels. Now, how long have I been saying that? I immediately look at a person's free T4, and if it's too high or if I see that this patient is on T4 only, I immediately know that this is a problem. T4 only doesn't work. So if you are on T4 only, please continue listening. Do not stop this podcast. You need this to save your life. I look at that free T4 number and I have actually changed my optimal range. You might see other functional practitioners that aren't up to date on this, and they'll still tell you that the optimal free T4 is, like 1.5 or above. No way. That's way too high. Way too high. If you're at a 1.5 or your free T4, that's a problem. And you are at an increased risk of cancer. And your reverse T3 is most likely too high, and you are taking too much T4 in the form of T4 or NDT and you are not working with Someone that knows what they're doing. You do not want your free T4. That high T4 is made by your body. A hormone that is produced by your body is not going to directly cause cancer. Just like estrogen does not cause cancer, testosterone doesn't cause cancer, T4 doesn't cause cancer. But too much T4 is the problem. So its role in cancer is being increasingly studied and that's what we're finding. So the research focuses on whether T4 can initiate cancer or if it mainly just influences cancer progression, especially in those hormone sensitive tumors like breast and ovarian. The struggle is real when it comes to losing weight. Listen, I know because I've been there. You're trying all the things. You're doing the diet, you're tracking your macros, getting to the gym, you're going to the Pilates, you're doing all the things, but it's not working. It's not working. And this is independent of a thyroid problem. Maybe you have a thyroid problem. Maybe you have low hormones or maybe you don't and you're just like, I just have a really crappy metabolism that I am putting on weight or I can't lose weight no matter what I do. Then you need some help. But what you don't need is a stimulant fat burner of the old days where you literally thought you were having a heart attack. You need something that is actually going to work to increase your metabolism without jacking up your heart rate. Enter Thyroid Fixer. Yes, I know it's called Thyroid Fixer, but I named it after myself and the brand because it's my baby, it's my child. It's a product that I have been studying for 15 years and using it on patients for 15 years before I brought it to you. Thyroid fixer contains T2. And what this does, I call it the forgotten thyroid hormone. No, there's no tests for T2, but your body does produce T2 in small amounts. T2 will increase your basal metabolic rate, literally the amount of fat that you're burning at rest. It's also browning white adipose tissue. So this is why you jump into cold plunges. Or maybe you're like, I don't want to jump in a cold plunge to brown your white adipose tissue. That helps with insulin resistance, it helps with metabolism, it helps with inflammation, helps with overall health. So that's a good thing as well. And here's the other thing. With T2, it's not going to affect your thyroid. So many of you know, if you take T3. If we give you T3 or if you abuse T3 when you're not supposed to, it will have a feedback loop, a negative feedback loop on your thyroid and you're going to either look like you're hyperthyroid or you're going to shut down your own Thyroid Production. T2 doesn't do that. It's working at the cell level to just simply increase your metabolism. That's a win all the way around because now you're going to burn fat, now you're going to lose those extra LBs, and that's ultimately what we want. It also bonus helps with ATP production at the mitochondrial level. This means steady energy through the day. No highs, no lows, no caffeinated red bull spikes. Just really nice steady energy through the day to keep you going. So you want to add in thyroid fixer and just literally watch your body change over the next couple months. Because listen, I mean, it's, it's time. Well, it's time all year long. I mean, there's no good time of year to lose body fat. We want to be in shape, we want to look, feel and perform our best. Add in thyroid fixer and your body will absolutely thank you and then you'll come back and you'll thank me. So what we are finding is that T4 can actually act on a receptor on cancer cells and promote cell proliferation or increasing of those cancer cells, mutating of those cancer cells and support angiogenesis and potentially increase metastases in various cancers, including breast thyroid cancer. Now, again, it's because there is too much T4 being given by the prescriber, being given by your doctor. You are on way too much T4, not enough T3 or no T3 whatsoever. And all of that T4 needs to be converted so that excess T4 that is not converted or that converts to reverse T3 can have an effect on the cell. So T4 can actually mimic estrogen defects. T4 can mimic estrogen's effect in ER positive breast cancer. It can stimulate immune checkpoint gene expression and enhance chemo resistance. I'm just, I'm, I'm. I'm speechless a little bit. I mean, I've already looked at these studies before I hit record. But I'm just thinking of the patients that we have had or have right now that are in an active cancer state, going through therapy or have already survived cancer and we're treating them the right way. But my God, they came from conventional medicine or they came from these functional doctors that didn't know what they were doing with the thyroid. And could it have been that keeping them on T4 only or keeping them on nothing but NDT could have literally driven their breast cancer? It could have. And now we're seeing this and enhancing chemo resistance. So if they do chemotherapy, those cancer cells are actually going to develop a resistance to that chemo drug. In thyroid cancer, T4 may support tumor growth and radioresistance, especially when TSH suppression fails. I'm going to read that again. In thyroid cancer, T4 may support tumor growth and radioresistance, especially when TSH suppression fails. What that means is despite what you hear in conventional medicine, your doctor has probably already told you that you don't want that TSH suppressed or you will be hyper hyperthyroid. In thyroid cancer. Post thyroidectomy, we try to keep that TSH suppressed. And what conventional medicine does, or what your, your ENT surgeon that removes your thyroid will do or your endocrinologist will do is give you more T4. More T4. Let's go higher. More, higher, more. Let's take it from 50 to 75 to 112 to 120. Let's 20, 80 to 200. Let's just keep going. That natural desiccated thyroid. Let's go 60, 90, 120, 180. Let's keep going. In an attempt to lower your TSH to prevent tissue regrowth of a tumor cell. However, that doesn't always work. And More and more T4 actually is supporting the tumor growth, especially when that TSH won't drop. You know, It'll make the TSH suppress T3 proper thyroid treatments. Large population studies show that higher free T4 levels are associated with an increased risk of solid cancers, including breast and lung, but do not establish causation. Again, it's the higher free T4 levels. It's not the T4 medication itself unless it's given in excessive amounts. The higher free T4 levels, it's not the medication itself. It's given in higher amounts. I'm going to repeat things so we drive this point home. You don't need to be fearful of the thyroid medication itself. That little pill is not going to go in your body and produce a cancer unless you're taking too much of it. And your free T3 is too. Your free T4 is too high. Your reverse T4. Oh my gosh, let's say that again. It's not the little pill that's going to go in your body and cause cancer. It's the fact that you're taking too much of it. Your free T4 levels are too high. Your reverse T3 levels are too high. That's the problem. That's the problem. Higher free T4 levels that 1.5 or above are associated with increased risk of solid cancers, including breast and lung. But that does not establish a causation, meaning that little pill is not going to cause cancer. It's the buildup of the T4 and the increasing of the reverse T3 that will now hyperthyroidism, which they actually define as having a high T4. I'm going to say that again. Hyperthyroidism. And in parentheses, high T4. Now, they're not calling hyperthyroidism low TSH. They're not saying that you have high free T3. Nothing wrong with having high free T3 levels. But if you have high free T4 levels, you're probably actually hypothyroid. You're not hyper. But high T4 levels is linked to a higher cancer risk. While hypothyroidism may reduce cancer aggressiveness or delay the onset of the cancer risk is because those higher T4 levels are associated with that increased risk and they promote cancer cell growth, survival and metastases, especially in certain tumor types. The evidence supports a role for T4 in cancer progression rather than initiation. And clinical management may consider T4 modulation in cancer patients. Meaning change up the damn dose and get people converting their T4 to T3 properly. And let's lower reverse T3. I hope that is clarified for you. Don't turn it off yet. We're not done. But I hope that clarifies for you the studies. Now, again, I love Brian, I really do. I love Dr. Ertis. He was so good on the show. But I want to point out something that he even said in his podcast that he was pushing NDT. He's like, this is why we need to save NDT. Because T4 Synthroid Levo causes cancer, Dr. Artis. So does NDT, because that's 80% T4. And if the patient's only given NDT and nobody's checking their reverse and nobody's addressing the fact that the reverse T3 is climbing and their poor body is going in survival mode, then it's not just the Synthroid and the Levo, it's the NDT as well. So we need to help people convert properly. We need to help people convert. We need to help you convert. So what do you need to help this process? All right, let's go over the essential COFactors required for T4 to T3 conversion. First of all, zinc and selenium both are essential cofactors for deiodinase enzymes. So when I said that genetic SNP D101, D102, that's a diodeinase, It's a diode in nace enzyme, meaning it helps T4 to turn into T3. It converts inactive T4 to exact T3. Selenium additionally helps regulate the activation, the deactivation and the clearance of thyroid hormones, protecting the thyroid gland via antioxidant functions. Okay. A and E. Vitamin A, Vitamin E. These fat soluble antioxidants help safeguard thyroid tissue from oxidative stress and improve hormone signaling. Vitamin A especially enhances cellular sensitivity to T3, which is beautiful. Ensuring that once it's produced that T3 that your body produces and then the T4 that converts to T3 that it can actively engage that cellular receptor and trigger the metabolic response that we want. The metabolism, the hair growth, the energy. L tyrosine, my favorite amino acid. I have L tyrosine in metabolism fixer in thyroid fixer and now it's in my new T3 conversion fixer. L tyrosine as an amino acid, it's a precursor to thyroid hormones. So it literally contributes directly to the biosynthesis of T4 and T3 to the making of T4 and T3 by your thyroid gland, effectively feeding the thyroid the raw material it needs to produce hormones in. If you do not have enough L tyrosine in your body, your thyroid cannot produce enough T4 and T3 period. End of story. End of story. I don't care how much selenium, I don't care how, how many other CO factors, iodine, all the beautiful things that you throw at it. If you don't have enough L tyrosine, your thyroid gland can't produce that T4 and T3. Gugul extract. Not Google Gugul. G U G G U L is an ayurvedic resin that supports thyroid activity by stimulating that diode and a action promoting T4 to T3 conversion and enhancing your metabolic rate, improving your metabolism while also providing anti inflammatory support. I actually have Google in my T3 conversion fixer. I have all of these vital CO factors and nutrients in T3 conversion. Picture Ashwagandha. This is an adaptogen that helps regulate stress hormones, especially cortisol. When cortisol is high, it is going to impair your T4 to T3 conversion. Ashwagandha is a beautiful adaptogen. So whether it's low or high, Ashwagandha is going to come in and say let's figure this out with the adrenal glands and let's balance this cortisol thing going on so that we can convert T4 to T3. It supports Adrenal health. It is crucial for maintaining efficient thyroid function. Bovine liver. Bovine liver extract. A potent, naturally rich source of highly bioavailable micronutrients. We're talking vitamins, minerals, thyroid specific nutrients and glandular support. Bovine liver extract. Bovine liver, glandular. Offers this comprehensive nutritional support for the thyroid. It supports your liver where T4 to T3 conversion happens and supports your overall endocrine system. So it aids conversion indirectly through nutrient adequacy and systemic support and support of your liver. Turmeric, or turmeric, however you say it, curcumin, strong anti inflammatory and antioxidant effects. You reduce that oxidative stress, which T2 also does. Thyroid fixer. T2 helps reduce oxidative stress. Turmeric curcumin helps reduce oxidative stress in the thyroid tissue itself and supports healthy metabolic balance. So when you lower that inflammation, you are priming your body for efficient hormone conversion and efficient hormone signaling of your thyroid hormones. Vital, vital. Vital. So we're going to boost hormone production. We're going to fuel the conversion of T4 to T3. We're going to protect thyroid tissue, enhance hormone signaling. We're going to reduce stress and inflammation, support overall nutrient adequacy. I have all of those in my T3 conversion fixer, but I wanted to go over each and every one of them so you know what they do and how they will help you. If you're on T4 only, I'm so sorry. I'm going to urge you to work with someone that knows what the hell they're doing with the thyroid so that you can get on the right thyroid treatment to reduce your risk of cancer. But also add in, for goodness sake, right now if you're on NDT only, if you're on T4 only, or if you have a little bit of an elevator reverse T3 and you're still working on bringing that down, add in T3 conversion fixer. It literally helps reduce your risk of cancer. I can say that it's gonna help reduce your risk of cancer because too much T4. Again, let's remember the studies. There's no direct evidence that T4 itself alone causes cancer. But higher T4 levels and higher reverse T3 levels are associated with that increased cancer risk and may promote cancer. Now you have the full clarification. Now you have all of the answers. I don't want you to stress, but I want you to take some action so that you can feel better. Get rid of your symptoms, of course, because it's all about living our best life. 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